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News Corp confirms that it will build its investment in APN News and Media to 14.99 per cent, subject to regulatory approval.
APN owns three of New Zealand's top five radio networks and The New Zealand Herald, as well as several major radio networks in Australia and around 20 daily and 80 non-daily newspapers on both sides of the Tasman.
It is also a major provider of outdoor (billboard) advertising in Australia and New Zealand.
It has been reported in the Fairfax press that APN's two largest shareholders - Independent News & Media and Baycliffe, both controlled by Irish billionaire Denis O'Brien - have sold large stakes in a block trade managed by Credit Suisse.
The report that IPN has sold 191 million shares would indicate that it has offloaded its entire shareholding, while Mr O'Brien's investment vehicle Baycliffe's reported sale of 125 million shares would be more than a third of its current 30 per cent stake in APN.
APN is in a trading halt, requested by the company earlier today "pending a potential share sell down by two major shareholders", and was last trading around 94 cents a share.

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Fairfax reports that News Corp paid 88 cents a share for a 10 per cent stake, to add to a 4.9 per cent shareholding it had quietly accumulated.
Shareholdings below 5 per cent do not need to be advised to the market as they are below the substantial shareholder threshold.

This News is reprinted from site http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-19/news-corp-takes-1499pc-slice-of-apn-news-and-media/6332662?section=business
A Melbourne man has been charged with Tuesday's stabbing murder of teenager Masa Vukotic, as well as six other charges, including rape and assault, after an alleged serious crime spree this morning.
The girl's body was found near a footbridge in Koonung Creek Linear Reserve in Stanton Street in Doncaster on Tuesday night.
Neighbours called triple-0 after they heard screaming, but paramedics were unable to revive the girl, who had been stabbed in the upper body.
Sean Christian Price, a 31-year-old man from Albion, faced an out-of-sessions court hearing on Thursday night after being questioned by police.
He was barefoot, handcuffed and wearing blue prison overalls. He was not represented by a lawyer.
The accused joked with the bail justice when he was asked whether he was born in 1952, a reference to an error on the court documents.
"I must look pretty good for my age," he said.
At the hearing Price was also charged with one count of rape, two counts of robbery and three counts of assault over a violent crime spree in Sunshine earlier in the day.
Police allege he assaulted a 26-year-old man on a footbridge at 10:00am before stealing his mobile phone.
It is alleged he then attempted unsuccessfully to carjack a vehicle belonging to a 77-year-old man on McCracken Street before fleeing on foot.
Price is then accused of going into a business on Harvester Road about 11.20am where he approached a woman and allegedly became violent before physically and sexually assaulting her.
He was remanded in custody and will appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday.

School, community remembers Masa Vukotic

A growing floral tribute has been left at the park where Ms Vukotic died on Tuesday night.
Police said her family, who moved to Australia from Montenegro, asked for privacy.
Dr Mary Cannon, the principal of Canterbury Girls Secondary College where the teenager was studying VCE, said the school was shocked and devastated by the tragedy.
"Masa was a very popular and respected student who had close friendships with many students," Dr Cannon said in a statement.
"Our thoughts and wishes are with Masa's family at this incredibly difficult time."
Thousands of people joined a tribute page established on social media in honour of the teenager, with hundreds of people leaving messages of condolence to her family.
 
This News is Reprinted from site http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-19/sean-price-charged-with-murder-of-masa-vukotic/6333804

The Federal Government's battles with the Senate has seen the prospect of a double dissolution election discussed among senior ministers.
Mr Abbott


A spokesman for the Prime Minister has told the ABC "the Government intends to run its full term", but the idea has been brought up at two separate meetings this week - at a leadership group meeting on Monday morning and at a Cabinet dinner that night.
Some ministers present said the idea was quickly dismissed, while others refused to comment or denied the conversation took place.
One senior minister said of Mr Abbott: "He would lead us all to a narcissistic annihilation."
The Coalition has been frustrated with its inability to get some key policies through the Senate, such as the Medicare co-payment and deregulation of higher education.
But a double dissolution election is an unlikely solution to the Government's problems.
ABC's election analyst Antony Green said the Coalition would struggle to remain in office if an election were called now.
"People don't call double dissolutions when they're behind in the polls," he said.
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"A double dissolution is an option you have, it's not an option you invoke if you're behind, if you think you're going to lose.
"So I think some people would view it as being a false threat."
Mr Green also warned the Coalition a double dissolution election risks seeing more minor party and independent candidates elected to the Senate.
"Holding a double dissolution under current electoral laws where you halve the quota would probably double the size of the crossbench," he said.
"So, I don't think it solves any of the Government's problems, it would just weaken them in the Senate."
A Government can only ask the Governor-General for a double dissolution if legislation is rejected by the Senate twice, with at least three months between the two votes.
But it is not an issue on the same scale as the policy battles that have triggered previous double dissolutions.
There have only been six double dissolution elections since Federation, the last one in 1987.

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Minister for Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 September 2013
Prime MinisterTony Abbott
Preceded byBob Carr
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 November 2007
LeaderBrendan Nelson
Malcolm Turnbull
Tony Abbott
Preceded byPeter Costello
Deputy Leader of the Opposition
In office
3 December 2007 – 18 September 2013
LeaderBrendan Nelson
Malcolm Turnbull
Tony Abbott
Preceded byJulia Gillard
Succeeded byAnthony Albanese
Minister for Education and Science
In office
27 January 2006 – 3 December 2007
Prime MinisterJohn Howard
Preceded byBrendan Nelson
Succeeded byJulia Gillard (Education)
Minister for Women's Issues
In office
27 January 2006 – 3 December 2007
Prime MinisterJohn Howard
Preceded byKay Patterson
Succeeded byTanya Plibersek (Status of Women)
Minister for Ageing
In office
7 October 2003 – 27 January 2006
Prime MinisterJohn Howard
Preceded byKevin Andrews
Succeeded bySanto Santoro
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Curtin
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 October 1998
Preceded byAllan Rocher
Majority17.42%
Personal details
Born17 July 1956 (age 58)
Lobethal, South Australia,Australia
Political partyLiberal Party
Other political
affiliations		Coalition
Spouse(s)Neil Gillon (1983–1988)
Alma materUniversity of Adelaide
ReligionChristianity[1]
Julie Isabel Bishop MP (born 17 July 1956) is an Australian politician who has been the Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2013 and the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party since 2007.[2][3] She is the first female Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and only the third woman to have held the title of Deputy Leader of the Opposition. She has also been a Member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998 for the seat of Curtin in Western Australia.
She previously served in the Howard Government as the Minister for Ageing from 2003 to 2006 and the Minister for Educationfrom 2006 to 2007. until the defeat of the Liberal/National Coalition at the election held on 24 November 2007. Bishop is arepublican.[4] Bishop holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Adelaide, and was managing partner of the Perth office of Australian law firm, Clayton Utz, from 1994 to 1998.

Early life and career[edit]

Bishop was born in Lobethal, South Australia, growing up on a cherry farm in theAdelaide Hills.[5][6] She was educated at St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School and later at the University of Adelaide, where she studied law, graduating in 1978. She practised as a barrister and solicitor at the Adelaide law firm Mangan, Ey & Bishop, where she was a partner.
In 1983, Bishop relocated to Perth, Western Australia, where she practised as a commercial litigation solicitor at Clayton Utz (then known as Robinson Cox). While working at Clayton Utz, Bishop was part of the legal team which defended compensation claims against CSR by asbestos mining workers who had contracted mesothelioma as a result of their work for the company.[7][8] She became a partner of Clayton Utz in 1985.
Bishop became managing partner of the Perth office of Clayton Utz in 1994. In 1996, she attended Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts and completed the eight-week Advanced Management Program for Senior Managers. She has stated that it was at this course that she was inspired to give up her lucrative law career and enter Federal politics.[9][10]
Bishop chaired the Town Planning Appeal Tribunal of Western Australia, belonged to the Senate of Murdoch University, and was a director of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and a director and fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. She has also served on the Council of Governors of the Lions Ear and Hearing Institute.[11]

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Member of Parliament[edit]

Bishop won preselection for the Liberal Party for the seat of Curtin, Western Australia, in 1998, and went on to win the seat at the federal election later that year, defeating the sitting member, Liberal turned independent Allan Rocher, who had held the seat since 1981.
Following the Liberals' February 2001 state election loss by Richard Court to Geoff Gallop, Bishop was mooted as a possible contender for leader of the state opposition.[11] Initially, Court announced that he would lead the Liberals into opposition. However, behind the scenes he was engineering a deal under which both he and his deputy leader and factional opponent,Colin Barnett, would resign from the state legislature. Bishop would have handed her comfortably safe federal seat to Barnett, entered the state parliament via a by-election in either Barnett or Court's comfortably safe state seats and succeeded Court as state Liberal leader.[12] The deal soon collapsed, however, when Bishop turned it down, declaring that the arrangement wasn't bizarre, but "innovative, different".[11] Court was forced to leave politics altogether, and Barnett took over as state opposition leader.


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§Minister in the Howard government[edit]

Bishop was appointed Minister for Ageing in 2003. She was later promoted to Minister for Education, Science and Training andMinister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues in the cabinet reshuffle on 24 January 2006 and served in those positions until the defeat of the Coalition government at the federal election held on 24 November 2007.
Bishop's education policies centred on the development of national education standards as well as performance-based pay for teachers.[13] On 13 April 2007, the Australian state governments expressed opposition to Bishop's policies, notably those relating to performance pay. In the 2007 budget, the federal government announced a $5b "endowment fund" for higher education, with the expressed goal of providing world-class tertiary institutions in Australia.[14]
Some of Bishop's comments, such as "the states have ideologically hijacked school syllabi and are wasting $180 million in unnecessary duplication", were criticised by teachers. An advance media kit for a 2006 speech claimed parts of the contemporary curriculum came "straight from Chairman Mao"; however, the reference was dropped from her speech.[15][16][17]

§Shadow ministry and deputy Liberal leader[edit]

Following the Coalition's loss at the 2007 election, Bishop was elected deputy leader of the Liberal Party under Brendan Nelsonon 29 November 2007. In a ballot of Liberal party room members, Bishop prevailed with 44 votes, one more than the combined total of her two competitors, Andrew Robb (25 votes) and Christopher Pyne (18 votes).[18] Nelson opted not to give National Party leader Warren Truss the post of Deputy Leader of the Opposition, instead giving it to Bishop. Bishop was also given the shadow portfolio of employment, business and workplace relations in the Nelson shadow cabinet.[19]
On 22 September 2008, Bishop was offered the role of Shadow Treasurer by Nelson's successor as Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull, in his shadow cabinet,[20] making her the first woman to hold the portfolio of any major party at the federal level.[21] On 16 February 2009, she resigned from the position of Shadow Treasurer due to dissatisfaction within Liberal ranks over her performance. Bishop moved to foreign affairs while maintaining her position of Deputy Leader and the shadow treasury portfolio was taken over byJoe Hockey.[22] On 1 December 2009, Tony Abbott was elected leader after a leadership spill. Bishop retained the deputy role without being challenged for the position[23] and also retained her role as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs in Abbott's shadow cabinet.[24]
In 2010, Bishop defended the suspected forgery of Australian passports by Mossad, saying that many countries practised the forging of passports for intelligence operations, including Australia.[25] The government attacked Bishop over the statements, saying she had "broken a long-standing convention" in not speculating about intelligence practices.[26][27] She later clarified her statement, saying, "I have no knowledge of any Australian authority forging any passports of any nation."[28]
Following the Coalition's narrow loss in the 2010 federal election, Bishop retained the roles of Deputy Leader and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and was given the added responsibility of Shadow Minister for Trade.[29]

This information is reprinted from site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Bishop